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@manupk manupk commented Jan 10, 2026

Why:

The MCP Registry validation steps mentioned in the documentation is not correct. I can see from the VS Code source code that they do more elaborate validation including name, description and version.

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This is the part of source code in VS code where the above is validated. I spend a lot of time wandering why the server is not showing up, then figured out other parameters.

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This PR corrects the documentation in 2 relevant pages.

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Updated instructions for including local MCP servers in the registry to specify correct name, description, and version. This is as per the validation done in VS Code.
Updated the limitations section to include description and version matching for MCP allowlist enforcement. This is as per the current validation in the VS Code.
Changed to server name/ID to reflect better field.
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